In article <[email protected]>,
Eric W. Biederman <[email protected]> wrote:
>Vladimir Lazarenko <[email protected]> writes:
>
>>>>>Thus, the question - would I be able to use whole 4G RAM with dual-core amd
>> and
>>>>>kernel with SMP compiled for i686?
>>> Why would you use a dual core AMD in 32 bit mode? Just build an x86_64
>>> kernel.
>>> If you want to use 4GB in 32 bit mode, you *need* remapping (or you lose
>>> part of your memory). Remapping means you have MORE than 4 GB of physical
>>> address, which means you need PAE to use it at all.
>>
>> Because I find my distribution's 64-bit release reasonably unstable yet? :)
>>
>> Or can I somehow build an x86_64 kernel and keep using 32-bit libc?
>
>Building a x86_64 kernel is a bit of a trick on a 32bit distro.
>You need an appropriate version of gcc, and binutils. But it runs
>fine.
I installed the 64 bit version of my distro on a small partition,
the 32 bit version on a larger partition. Then I compiled a kernel
on the 64 bit system, and installed it on the 32 bit partition.
Now I boot a 64 bit kernel for the 32 bit userland, and mount the
64-bit distribution partition under /amd64 - if I need to do
anything in 64 bit userland (like compile a new kernel) I just
chroot /amd64
Even the 64-bit binary nvidia kernel driver works fine with
a 32-bit X in userland.
Mike.
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